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Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a…
Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a testimony against the corruptions of the market-place. With some good hopes of better things to be yet seen in the American world. In a sermon, to the General Assembly of the Massachusett-Province in New-England. 3 d. 9 m. 1709. : [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1710
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
One incompara••• Glory […] City, is now singl•• out for our present Meditation. The Street o• the City is Pure Gold. I concur with Peganius, and conceive, That the Street here means, and so it ⟨p. 5⟩m•• be translated, The ••rket-•••ce; the Pl•ce where th• Affairs o• ••ade bring together a Concourse […] ••ople. The meaning is, The […] •f the CITY, shall be managed by […] Golden Rule. The Thing• •hat […] to be done in […] Market-Place, […] without Corruption. T••re s••ll be no Base D••ling in it. […] is added, It is as it were Transparent Gl•••. That is, The Dealing […] be so […], that it sh•ll be•r to be L••k'd into▪ it shall be so Sincere, that men shall be willing to have their very Hearts Look'• into. There shall be no False-De•ling: All shall be done with all possible Integrity. And tho' Grotius b• the last m•n I would advise ••thal, upon the Prophesies of the Apocalypse, […] will here take in a Gloss of his […] tis a very Good one; Vvet […] t in Dei Cospectu; Mn shall […] Live and Act, as Remembering, that the Great GOD looks upon them.